Little bit of cucumber, A

AKA	I like pickled onions With a little bit of cucumber

Lyrics

TW Connor

Music

TW Connor

Roud

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I was weaned on cucumber
 And on my wedding day
 Sitting down to supper when
 The guests had gone away
 My old darling said to me
 "You must be hungry Joe
 What is it you fancy?" 
 I said, "Fancy, Don't you know?"
 
 "I like pickled onions, 
 I like piccalilli
 Pickled cabbage is all right
 With a bit of cold meat on a Sunday night
 I can grow termartoeses, but what I do prefer
 Is a little bit of cu-cum-cu-cum-cu-cum
 Little bit of cu-cum-ber.'
 
 I went flying in the air
 With my old college chum
 Suddenly he said to me
 "We're bound for kingdom come.
 Is there anything on your mind?
 Before you wear a crown."
 I began to shake and said
 "Write this confession down."
 
 To the lord Mayor's banquet I
 Got in one foggy day
 When I saw the grub it
 Took my breath away
 "Sparrowgrass" and chaffinches
 And pigs-head stuffed with jam
 I said to the waiter there
 "You don't know who I am.
 
 Several years of married life 
 Have brought me lots of joys
 I don't know how many girls 
 I think its fourteen boys
 When the last one came to town 
 It nearly turned my head
 It was marked with a cucumber 
 And the fust words that I said,
 

Another song by the Cockney comic Harry Champion , which has been passed on through a number of traditional singers. First published in 1915, it was written and composed by TW Connor.

Sources:

• Baker British Music Hall
• Bumper Book of Music Hall

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